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There are a few references to the scientific literature on trolling in the wikipedia article Some psychologists have suggested that flaming would be caused by deindividuation or decreased self-evaluation: the anonymity of online postings would lead to disinhibition amongst individuals (Kiesler et al, 1984). Others have suggested that although ...

Here is an article explaining trolling based on Sperber and Mercier's "argumentative theory" of human reasoning. The latter is a fascinating paper in its own right. References Mercier, H. and Sperber, D. (2011). Why do humans reason? arguments for an argumentative theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34(02):57-74. FREE PDF

WebExp is a client/server based psychology/linguistics experiment creation/running system written in Java. It is freely available. A subject types in the appropriate web address and they see the experiment pages that have been created; obviously you have to have access to a server on which the experiment software+configuration files are running. It ...

The Open Science Framework will do some of what you ask for. Additionally, it will allow you to preregister your hypotheses to properly distinguish confirmatory and exploratory research. Features (quoted from the homepage). Document and archive studies Share and find materials, scripts, data Detail individual contributions Increase transparency ...

I like your question. But I have to point out one thing - if you were to use documenting tools for all those tasks that you mentioned, you wouldn't have that much time left for your research. Sharing is great, but it takes time to do it properly, even with great tools. I tried quite a few tools for documenting research, with an idea to boost my ...

From an article by the NY times. Trolling, defined as the act of posting inflammatory, derogatory or provocative messages in public forums, is a problem as old as the Internet itself, although its roots go much farther back. Even in the fourth century B.C., Plato touched upon the subject of anonymity and morality in his parable of the ring of ...

Figshare is one option for archiving assorted research artefacts. To quote the "about page": figshare allows researchers to publish all of their research outputs in seconds in an easily citable, sharable and discoverable manner. All file formats can be published, including videos and datasets that are often demoted to the supplemental materials ...

I think ProjectImplicit will be what you want. It is also Java based and runs fully in the browser. It is by the Harvard guys that did run the IAT via web and collected ten thousand datasets this way. See here for their services (I am not sure if it is free but seems so at least for non-commerical research). If you like it and use it perhaps you can post ...

The best review of experience sampling tools I've found is here. Specifically, to answer you question, check out "MyExperience". To quote the website: MyExperience is a BSD-licensed open source mobile data collection tool developed for Windows Mobile devices (including PDAs and mobile phones) using .NET CF 2 and Microsoft SQL Compact Edition. ...

Limesurvey is worth checking out (more suitable for questionnaire style tasks, but very flexible and with some coding it should be possible to, eg. record RTs) Wextor could be another possibility - it allows building more complicated designs, has not been developed for a bit, though...

If you want to deliver visual stimuli with accurate timing, don't use this method as the general consensus is that flat screen monitors can not yet be fully trusted for timing (though tests are being done, and some monitors may be ok, the jury is very much out on this one). For example, if you want a stimulus up for, say 500ms, or some smaller number like ...

WebExp is a free framework for developing web-based experiments, and the source code is freely available. The client side is a Java applet, so subjects must have Java installed on their computers. Perhaps this causes fewer drop-outs than having to install the executable generated by Inquisit Web. This paper discusses the timing accuracy of WebExp-based ...

If I managed to understand, each participant may have a slightly different viewing experience, as long as it's constant through multiple sessions each participant has. To achieve this, you may ask participants to sit an arm's reach from their monitor. Try to make the images span the same physical size (even though it's really hard to achieve ...

2 sounds reasonable. The variability you introduce by sticking to pixels or display ratios seems like it outweighs the apparent unreliability of monitor size calculations. Also, unlike TVs that scale the content to fit the size, most webpages do not scale -- so, when I drag a webpage from my laptop screen to my second (larger) monitor, the size stays ...

Social psychology explains the mechanisms of social behaviour of people. Social curiosity is the social behaviour. I find nothing so special in being interested what your friend's friends are doing. It is just a step between being very interested in what people we stay in constant touch are doing and what the people we meet only occasionally are doing. Both ...